Retirement, pension eligibility and home production

Emanuele Ciani

No 1056, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: I estimate the effect of retirement on housework by exploiting the discontinuity in pension eligibility generated by the Italian social security rules. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), I show that women increase their time spent on home production by more than 400 minutes per week. For men, there is on average no evidence of a significant change, which differs from the results of studies in other countries. However, estimates are heterogeneous by marital status, suggesting that married men do not increase time spent on household production because they can rely on their spouses. I also discuss other possible explanations, in particular men dedicating their time to ‘semi-leisure chores’ that do not fall under the definition of housework used in SILC. Overall, results suggest that retirement does not lead to a more equal distribution of ‘core’ household chores between genders.

Keywords: retirement; house work; regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 J22 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02
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